From a mystical restauarant to a quirky classroom, Crunchyroll’s taking viewers to countless new vistas this summer.
Earlier today, Crunchyroll announced that they will stream four titles as part of their summer simulcast lineup. The company will offer the following:
- Restaurant to Another World (7/3/2017 at 11:05AM Pacific / 2:05PM Eastern)
- A Centaur’s Life (7/9/2017 at 7:30AM Pacific / 10:30AM Eastern)
- Saiyuki Reload Blast (7/5/2017 at 8:00AM Pacific / 11:00AM Eastern)
- Classroom of the Elite (7/12/2017 at 9:00AM Pacific / Noon Eastern)
All four shows will be available in all regions outside of Asia. Crunchyroll will also start streaming the Japanese dub for RWBY, though premiere dates and regions are unknown as of press time.
Restaurant to Another World
Restaurant to Another World is based on Junpei Inuzuka’s light novel series of the same name. Masato Jinbo (Fate/kaleid liner Prisma Illya 2wei Herz!, Chaos;Child) will direct the series and take charge of series composition at Silver Link. The team of Takao Sano (Nurse Witch Komugi R, Shomin Sample) and Keiichi Sano (Heaven’s Memo Pad, Strike the Blood) will provide character designs for the project.
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Shopkeeper/Master: Junichi Suwabe
- Aletta: Sumire Uesaka
- Kuro: Saori Ōnishi
- Sarah: Kiyono Yasuno
- Red Queen: Shizuka Ito
- Artorius: Motomu Kiyokawa
- Tatsugoro: Hochu Otsuka
- Alphonse: Fumihiko Tachiki
- Heinrich: Tomokazu Sugita
Crunchyroll describes Restaurant to Another World as:
There is a certain restaurant in the first basement level of a multi-tenant building in one corner of a shopping street near the office district. The historical 70-year-old restaurant, marked by a sign with a picture of a cat, is called “Western Cuisine Nekoya.” This restaurant looks completely normal through the week, but on Saturdays, it opens in secret exclusively to some very unique guests. During these hours, doors in various areas of a parallel world open to allow customers of many different races and cultures into the restaurant. This “Restaurant to Another World” and its food hold an exotic charm to these highly diverse customers. This is a story of the heartwarming, once-in-a-lifetime encounters between our reality and another world, between the restaurant’s customers and its owner, and the food shared among them all.
A Centaur’s Life
A Centaur’s Life is based on Kei Murayama’s manga of the same name. Naoyuki Konno (009-1) will direct the project at Animation Company Emon, with Sakae Shibuya providing character designs. Touko Machida (Akashic Records of Bastard Magical Instructor, Chaika – The Coffin Princess) is in charge of series composition.
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Himeno Kimihara: Seria Fukagawa
- Nozomi Gokuraku: Yuki Kuwahara
- Kyouko Naraku: Haruka Shiraishi
- Manami Mitama: Yuna Kamakura
- Quetzalcoatl Sassassul: Yu Ayase
- Shino: Akane Kiryu
Crunchyroll describes the show as:
Kimihara Himeno, also known as “Hime,” goes about her life, love, and studies just like any ordinary high school girl. The only difference is that she’s a centaur. She enjoys her school life along with classmates of many unique shapes, including Nozomi the draconid, Kyouko the goatfolk, an angelfolk class representative, and Sassas-chan the Antarctican. Hime’s younger cousin Shino-chan, her friend Maki-chan, and the class representative’s four younger sisters also join the cast in this very cute slice-of-life story about girls who are human, yet aren’t!
Saiyuki Reload Blast
Saiyuki Reload Blast will be the first Saiyuki anime that isn’t animated by Studio Pierrot. Hideaki Nakano (Aoharu x Machinegun, SerVamp) will direct the project at Platinum Vision, with Youko Satou (Dog & Scissors, Pipopapo Patrol-kun) providing character designs. Kenji Konuta (Blood Lad, Library War) will oversee the show’s scripts.
Previously, Nakano and Konuta worked together on Aoharu x Machinegun and SerVamp.
The confirmed voice cast includes:
- Cho Hakkai: Akira Ishida
- Sha Gojyo: Hiroaki Hirata
- Son Goku: Souichiro Hoshi
- Genjo Sanzo: Toshihiko Seki
- Dokugakuji: Jin Yamanoi
- Crown Prince Nataku: Kaho Kouda
- Merciful Goddess: Rei Igarashi
- Kōgaiji: Takeshi Kusao
- Taruchie: Chiwa Saito
- Saitaisai: Junichi Suwabe
- Rei: Haruhi Nanao
- Tamuro: Yuuki Kaji
Crunchyroll describes Saiyuki Reload Blast as:
Humans and yokai, science and magic… all exist side-by-side on a peaceful continent free of all order and regulation, widely known as “Shangri-La.” The balance there was shattered when the Minus Wave caused all the yokai on the continent to rampage, an event known as the “Calamity.” Continuing their journey west to stop Gyumaoh’s resurrection experiments, the root of all the evil on the continent, the Three Aspects are finally drawing closer to India. But the closer they get, the more pronounced the influence of the Calamity becomes, and the more intense their battles become. Also standing before them is the tragic karma of 500 years past…
Classroom of the Elite
Classroom of the Elite is based on the ongoing light novel series of the same name by Syohgo Kinugasa and illustrator Shunsaku Tomose. Seiji Kishi (Assassination Classroom, Yuki Yuna is a Hero) is directing the project at Lerche, with Kazuaki Morita (Assassination Classroom, Tsukigakirei) providing character designs. Aoi Akashiro (Fuuka, KonoSuba – God’s blessing on this wonderful world!!) is in charge of series composition.
The confirmed voice cast includes:
D-Class
- Airi Sakura: M.A.O
- Haruki Yamauchi: Mutsuki Iwanaka
- Kei Karuizawa: Ayana Taketatsu
- Ken Sudō: Eiji Takeuchi
- Kenji Ike: Daiki Abe
- Kikyō Kujita: Yurika Kubo
- Kiyotaka Ayanokōji: Shōya Chiba
- Rokusuke Kōenji: Toshiki Iwasawa
- Suzune Horikita: Akari Kitō
- Teruhiko Yukimura: Tsubasa Gōda
- Yōsuke Hirata: Ryota Ohsaka
A-Class
- Arisu Sakayanagi: Rina Hidaka
- Kōhei Katsuragi: Satoshi Hino
B-class
- Honami Ichinose: Nao Tōyama
- Ryūji Kanzaki: Akihisa Wakayama
C-Class
- Kakeru Ryūen: Masaaki Mizunaka
- Mio Ibuki: Mikako Komatsu
Student Council
- Akane Tachibana: Konomi Kohara
- Manabu Horikita: Yuichiro Umehara
Teachers
- Chie Hoshinomiya: Hisako Kanemoto
- Sae Chabashira: Rina Satou
Crunchyroll describes the show as:
Ayanokouji Kiyotaka has just enrolled at Tokyo Koudo Ikusei Senior High School, where it’s said that 100% of students go on to college or find employment. But he ends up in Class 1-D, which is full of all the school’s problem children. What’s more, every month, the school awards students points with a cash value of 100,000 yen, and the classes employ a laissez-faire policy in which talking, sleeping, and even sabotage are permitted during class. But among all the students who lead such self-indulgent lives, there is one who disagrees with it all and chooses to remain solitary, avoiding contact with others: the beautiful Horikita Suzune. She has figured out that, even though the school gives students huge amounts of money, it also offers many means of “assistance for students with no money.” One month later, Ayanokouji, Horikita, and the students of Class D learn the truth of the system in place within their school…
Source: Crunchyroll